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>The EU is never held accountable for the laws they make Of course it is. The tech sector is practically non-existant here, and if something works out, they le
by iqanq 5y ago
>The EU is never held accountable for the laws they make
Of course it is. The tech sector is practically non-existant here, and if something works out, they leave for the US. Isn't that what being accountable is?
- pmlnr 5y agoThe shortsighted definition of "tech sector" of some people is hilarious.
- nickpp 5y agoHere in Europe we are running software tools and platforms written in the US, owned by USA-companies, on hardware designed in the US. And the people who created all that include lots of bright ex-Europeans. What do you find hilarious about that?
- pmlnr 5y ago... Same for hardware. Europe is quite big on embedded, think of Siemens just as an example.
- azernik 5y agoAnd all those American tools would not work without East Asian (mostly Taiwanese and South Korean) hardware. Tech is global, and that doesn't mean every part of the industry is everywhere.
- anthk 5y agoWithout some European hardware the US would do nothing.
- nickpp 5y agoTrue, we're not completely out of the loop. But let's not fool ourselves: we are far from running the show. And with an attitude like this we will be left watching how progress and innovation will keep coming from the US, driven by our own best and brightest emigrated there.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoThis is a self-inflicted wound. The EU needs to look to China in order to fix this. Impose draconian laws to clamp down and control the tech industry. Anything else WILL lead to loss of sovereignty. Control the data.